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By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Media, Palin, Quotes

“Reporters don’t exist to merely dutifully take down what politicians like Palin say and repeat it verbatim. They exist to force politicians to answer questions that they wouldn’t otherwise have to answer. The idea, personified by Palin’s comment, that politicians should be able to “go over the media’s head” and limit their communication with the public to a couple of meaningless stump speeches serves not to help the public but to reinforce the idea that politicians are an elite class who should be above having to answer to mere journalists.”
- Doug over at Below The Beltway on Palin’s laughably bad anti-media strategy.

What’s unbelievable/sad is this strategy actually snows the Republican base.

I welcome the day when it doesn’t.


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